Carl Bildt

The senior civilian administrator for the Bosnia peace accord announced Sunday that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had resigned. The statement was denied by Bosnian Serbs, however, leaving open the possibility of renewed international sanctions against Serbia. The administrator, Carl Bildt, said he had received a letter of resignation from Karadzic, who has been indicted for war crimes by the international tribunal in The Hague. Western diplomats who saw the letter said it was vague...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Sweden and Denmark will travel to Ukraine for a two-visit on Wednesday, Sweden's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Sweden's Carl Bildt and Denmark's Martin Lidegaard will visit Kiev and also eastern Ukraine, home to many ethnic Russians, and meet, among others, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and local parliamentarians. Bildt has advocated a tough stance against Moscow in the wake of Russia's moves to seize control...

Foreign military and police forces should remain in Bosnia for two more years to help peace take root, says the coordinator of international efforts to rebuild the war-torn country. Carl Bildt said Friday that only international forces could establish a secure climate for aid agencies to work effectively and for former enemies to learn to live together.The NATO-led force in Bosnia is due to leave around the end of the year. The U.S. has 15,000 troops there.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ethiopia told Sweden in May that it would pardon two detained Swedish journalists who were freed on Monday, but that it wanted to choose a suitable moment, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday. Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson were flown out of Ethiopia on Monday to an undisclosed location, where Bildt's ministry said they would be allowed to rest. They had been sentenced to 11 years in jail in December after...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Sweden and Denmark will travel to Ukraine for a two-visit on Wednesday, Sweden's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Sweden's Carl Bildt and Denmark's Martin Lidegaard will visit Kiev and also eastern Ukraine, home to many ethnic Russians, and meet, among others, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and local parliamentarians. Bildt has advocated a tough stance against Moscow in the wake of Russia's moves to seize control...

By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK, April 5 (Reuters) - It turns out you can govern in 140 characters. Social media is often accused of coarsening our public discourse and of making us stupid. But some innovative public leaders are taking to their keyboards and finding that the payoff is a direct and personal connection with their communities. To understand how statecraft by Twitter works, I spoke to three avid practitioners who are spread across the globe and work...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ethiopia told Sweden in May that it would pardon two detained Swedish journalists who were freed on Monday, but that it wanted to choose a suitable moment, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday. Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson were flown out of Ethiopia on Monday to an undisclosed location, where Bildt's ministry said they would be allowed to rest. They had been sentenced to 11 years in jail in December after...

Hunched over computer terminals at a former Serb military base, Muslim and Croat army officers fight a simulated battle against unnamed bad guys. Already, the computerized war is a big improvement over the real conflict that recently concluded here, one in which massacres, rapes and the forced removal of civilian populations became the signature tactics of "ethnic cleansing." "In this simulation you cannot shoot POWs or enemy civilians. You cannot shoot things under medical...

Bosnia's new government, brought to life with the prodding and assistance of the West, took its first small step Monday as the three former enemies who were elected to form its joint presidency held a meeting. It was the first gathering for what promises to be a fractious panel. But international mediators said the fact that it took place was significant in itself, and they sounded optimistic about the meeting's results. The newly elected co-presidents have huge differences to resolve.

The strategic Bosnian town of Brcko will be awarded to the Serbs, subject to certain guarantees, a diplomatic source said Thursday, and the Muslim heading the country's presidency said he would quit if this is the case. International arbiter Robert Owen, an American lawyer, was to announce his decision in Rome on Friday on behalf of a panel that also includes a Serb and a Muslim, following a meeting with the Contact Group on former Yugoslavia and the international high...

The Bosnian government released 109 Serb prisoners shortly before a midnight deadline Saturday, but an overseer of the Bosnian peace treaty said the release fell short of what was required by the accord. Authorities responded by setting a new eight-day deadline and threatening economic sanctions. At a meeting of foreign ministers and diplomats in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov said an April conference on Bosnia's economic reconstruction would be called off if the prisoner...

By Colin Soloway, Special to the Tribune. Tribune news services contributed to this report from Germany | October 6, 1996

Bosnian Serbs boycotted the inaugural meeting of the country's national assembly and multi-ethnic presidency on Saturday, raising fears that the newly elected joint institutions of government may founder before they even get started. The seats reserved for Serb delegates to the national assembly remained empty throughout the inauguration ceremony held in Sarajevo's national theater. The Croat and Muslim members of the tripartite presidency, Kresimir Zubak and Alija Izetbegovic, shared the...

Governments and international institutions around the world promised $1.23 billion more in aid Saturday to help rebuild shattered roads, power grids and homes in Bosnia-Herzegovina, bringing the total pledged this year to more than $1.8 billion. The Bosnian Serbs were invited but refused to come as part of a single Bosnian delegation and spell out their needs. U.S. officials said their government, called the Republika Srpska, will get no money as long as indicted war criminals...

Bosnia's new government, brought to life with the prodding and assistance of the West, took its first small step Monday as the three former enemies who were elected to form its joint presidency held a meeting. It was the first gathering for what promises to be a fractious panel. But international mediators said the fact that it took place was significant in itself, and they sounded optimistic about the meeting's results. The newly elected co-presidents have huge differences to resolve.

The strategic Bosnian town of Brcko will be awarded to the Serbs, subject to certain guarantees, a diplomatic source said Thursday, and the Muslim heading the country's presidency said he would quit if this is the case. International arbiter Robert Owen, an American lawyer, was to announce his decision in Rome on Friday on behalf of a panel that also includes a Serb and a Muslim, following a meeting with the Contact Group on former Yugoslavia and the international high...

Foreign military and police forces should remain in Bosnia for two more years to help peace take root, says the coordinator of international efforts to rebuild the war-torn country. Carl Bildt said Friday that only international forces could establish a secure climate for aid agencies to work effectively and for former enemies to learn to live together.The NATO-led force in Bosnia is due to leave around the end of the year. The U.S. has 15,000 troops there.

By Colin Soloway, Special to the Tribune. Tribune news services contributed to this report from Germany | October 6, 1996

Bosnian Serbs boycotted the inaugural meeting of the country's national assembly and multi-ethnic presidency on Saturday, raising fears that the newly elected joint institutions of government may founder before they even get started. The seats reserved for Serb delegates to the national assembly remained empty throughout the inauguration ceremony held in Sarajevo's national theater. The Croat and Muslim members of the tripartite presidency, Kresimir Zubak and Alija Izetbegovic, shared the...

The senior civilian administrator for the Bosnia peace accord announced Sunday that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had resigned. The statement was denied by Bosnian Serbs, however, leaving open the possibility of renewed international sanctions against Serbia. The administrator, Carl Bildt, said he had received a letter of resignation from Karadzic, who has been indicted for war crimes by the international tribunal in The Hague. Western diplomats who saw the letter said it was vague...